SF BAY AREA DAY TRIP ADVENTURE

Destination: Land's End, San Francisco

Visit Sutro Park, Explore the Sutro Baths, and Hike Land's End Trail

This is part of a series of family-oriented day trip outings around the San Francisco Bay Area I look forward to enjoying with my kids once social distancing and shelter in place isn’t the norm any longer.

Photo by Peter Gonzalez on Unsplash

Destination: Land’s End, San Francisco

1. Visit Sutro Heights Park
2. Explore the Sutro Baths
3. Hike Land’s End

Growing up in San Francisco, I’ve heard many stories about the things Adolf Sutro accomplished. The one thing that didn’t become clear until I was much older was the sheer scale of the things Sutro accomplished in such a short amount of time.

Over the course of the last decade of his life, Adolf Sutro purchased 12% of San Francisco land, became mayor, purchased Sutro Heights on a whim and created a world-renowned garden and built a home, purchased the Cliff House, rebuilt the Cliff House, created the Sutro Baths, build a cliff-side railway to bring patrons to his baths, built an estate where Sutro Tower is now, and so much more. It’s interesting to explore the relics of his efforts and share his story.